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01 Help On The Way (instrumental #1) 07:15
02 Franklin's Tower (#1) 08:07
03 Help On The Way (instrumental #2) 08:07
04 Lazy Lightning (intrumental) 04:53
05 The Music Never Stopped(instrumental) 06:04
06 Jam 06:37
07 Franklin's Tower (#2) 04:48
08 Crazy Fingers (instrumental) 06:45

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Reviewer: wilmeland - - September 9, 2012
Subject: Yikes
Good Find!

Reviewer: 73vw - - July 16, 2012
Subject: What a gem!!
Wow! Blues for Allah is my favorite studio GD and this is a real treat! Love the quick tempo MNS and the instrumental Fingers is amazing! Would have loved to have had this about 25 years ago!!

Reviewer: bstockwellus - - July 15, 2012
Subject: Outstanding
Outstanding and a rarity. Marked with age of hiss though.

Reviewer: dratefulgead - - May 16, 2012
Subject: I came looking for this after reading about it
From "Grateful Dead Family Album" by Jerilyn Lee Brandelius, pg. 125:

"In January of '75 the band was ready to hole up daily at Weir's studio and put together a new album more or less from scratch. They had given themselves the luxury of retiring from the road in '75, and each band member seemed to be hungry to sink his creative teeth into this new recording which would become Blues for Allah.

The evolution of the songs for Blues for Allah was a fascinating and at times tedious process - working and reworking each segment of each musical piece over and over again. So it was with some dubious relief that the band took a busman's holiday to rehearse for a few days with other musician friends for the upcoming SNACK benefit concert at Kezar Stadium in SF. Working with some of their new material, they jammed with David Crosby, John Cipollina, Merl Saunders and Ned Lagin. Since none of the new pieces had lyrics yet, they were all rehearsed and performed at SNACK only instrumentally. As the Allah tracks became keeper takes, lyric sessions were held and the musical tunes emerged as songs. There was no doubting that this was going to be a strong album for the Dead. - Steve Brown (The Golden Road).

Reviewer: bz studio,orlando,fl - - July 16, 2011
Subject: Outstanding
Outstanding and rare.

Notes

This is from a "liberated" Italian bootleg CD.
For those who MUST know-Entitled "Blues For Allah" on the Triangle label# pycd097.
It also included 3 tracks from 06/17/75 Winterland, I omitted these because that
show already circulates from the same source. From the Taping Compendium,
I would guess these are culled from various studio sessions for the Blues For Allah LP
and that they are from the March, 1975 time period.
All tracks are of outstanding sonic quality (except for Music which suffers from a
horrible cut at the end).

All in all, an interesting look at the embryonic stages of some of my favorite songs.
Enjoy!
Dave
03/25/01

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